AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs Intel Core i5-8259U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points

2416 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points

0.10% slightly better gaming score

4204 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points

1922 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points

1847 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points

65.05 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3013 points

4025 points

33% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2796 points

4030 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points

1206 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points

4117 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

1241 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

34% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

661st of 1,089

641st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 1200 vs Core i5-8259U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8259U is faster than the Ryzen 3 1200. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-8259U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 1200 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8259U. Despite this, the Core i5-8259U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8259U outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 1200 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 3 1200 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8259U. The Ryzen 3 1200 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.